Video from the Toxic waste site is
being produced by my Son to aid our
communities fight and seeking intervention.
Through our political officials to
obtain a congressional investigation
and to inform various aspects
of the Community regarding the
breal toxic waste site problems,
Mayor Lowe owned the site.
A large part of the time,
Ralph Lowe, from Friendswood.
And he had asked me to go on the side
he wanted to show me where some stuff
was coming up out of the ground.
And EPA was saying it wasn't happening.
And so we had the video and we saw the video.
And then I happened to be on the phone
with the EPA discussing this and we had.
A conversation that probably
lasted half an hour,
but there was 13 minutes of it
that we took and it was not.
It was not edited or anything,
it was just solid.
The 13 minutes of the conversation straight.
And my son happened to put together the
13 minutes of that along with the video
from when we'd been on the property.
And it's just so contrary.
They tell us there's no tars there,
no more than you'd find in a Maria
would know more than fill a couple
inches in the bottom of a bucket.
And at that time you see and it happened
to be Ralph Lowe that owned the place.
Sticking a stick about that
long that deep into the ground
and there's tears all over it.
People are stepping in tars and shaking
them off their feet and remember
the tars were the toxic chemicals.
That's the form they were in.
And. It it just.
If you listen to what was being
told us by EPA at that time.
And then look at the video which was fact.
You just had to realize.
Was not a good thing at one point I'm
telling EPA that the kids are getting
on to that field because you can see
the imprints of their baseball cleats.
In a one case we found a baseball.
There kids are getting on to the site and
the man from EPA tells me he says Marie.
That sites not only fenced its posted.
And in that part of the video you
see my feet are spreading apart,
a sign that's old and dirty and
you can tell it's been laying
on the ground for quite a while.
There was the sign that was
supposed to be posting the site.
But my comment to him because I didn't
know it was going with the video.
My comment to him was
but some of those children
are too little to read.
And his words pretty close were. Marie,
we can't function as guardians
of the neighborhood children.
And that frankly blew my mind
because I thought the Environmental
Protection Agency to me that was the
governmental agency that was there
to protect not just me, but the kids,
all the neighbors they were there to
watch out for us and take care of us.
And here was the spokesman
for EPA telling me that they couldn't
take care of the neighborhood kids.
Well, if they're not going to take
care of the neighborhood kids.
Then the Mamas and the daddies had to.
And that one video.
At that baseball meeting.
Got 100% vote.
To shut down the ballpark.
Because the people at that
meeting also believed.
That EPA was there to protect us.
And here was the spokesman.
For EPA telling us.
We can't be neighbors, you know.
Guardians of the neighborhood children.
Think about it.
Made a big difference.